Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many thefts of dogs occurred in the UK in each of the last five years.

The Home Office holds statistics on notifiable offences recorded by the police. The police record offences of thefts, in a number of categories and supply this information to the Home Office. Theft of dogs is most likely to be recorded within ‘other theft’, however theft of dogs cannot be separately identified within this category.